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that had received the veneration of ages were

attacked with an unsparing hand. And the

unexampled boldness of obtruding these

plain and startling utterances into the royal

presence aroused the wrath of the king. In his

amazement he stood for a little time

trembling and speechless. Then his rage

found utterance in the terrible words: “Let all

be seized without distinction who are

suspected of Lutheresy. I will exterminate

them all.—Ibid., b. 4, ch. 10. The die was cast.

The king had determined to throw himself

fully on the side of Rome.

Measures were at once taken for the arrest of

every Lutheran in Paris. A poor artisan, an

adherent of the reformed faith, who had been

accustomed to summon the believers to their

secret assemblies, was seized and, with the

threat of instant death at the stake, was